Roger Daltrey doesn't like Twitter. I heard him say as much on BBC Radio 5 Live the other day.
Perhaps it was this that brought to mind him singing 'Meet the new boss, same as the old boss'.
I was prompted to upgrade my copy of Opera by a slightly scornful message telling me my copy was over a year old. You may be aware of my previous difficulties with my favourite browser - forgive me summarizing if you have - but I am now unable to use the 'Edit HTML' facility of blogger in the browser. Used to work fine and dandy, then didn't when I came back.
Having done the upgrade, I was even more disappointed that on my arrival back here in new improved Opera 10.10 I get the same spinny ticker. Meet the new browser - same as the old browser. Harrumph.
Hotmail doesn't work with Opera. It freaks, then I've noticed it plays up in Chrome too. Zynga's Cafe World is even more buggy and error-prone (if that is physically possible) in Opera than any other browser that I use.
Has Google fallen out with Opera, or is it just me?
My PC has taken to suddenly powering-off recently. A worrying new turn considering I am pot-less and this is our main machine. More on this later, but I think it just an awful coincidence rather than a symptom of the Opera malaise.
It's fine in Firefox - though I haven't test 3.5.8 quite yet, this post will be edited in said browser prior to publication.
So, here I am, now in Firefox rather than Opera. I still don't like it as much, but at least it loads all the right pages. I'm sure I'll still use Opera for non-Facebook and non-blogger browsing. If the list continues to grow (Hotmail, StumbleUpon, to name two more) will I be able to justify using it?
With regard my mysterious powering off. When I began writing this piece it was about 11am. By that time I had experienced several power-offs.
The last time I got this sort of misbehaviour it turned out that the fan on the graphics card was clogged with dust. I found this after examining each component one at a time. It was too soon to be repeat but it was making a hell of a racket.
I recalled the BSOD reports since the most recent MS update.
I wasn't seeing blue, I was seeing red! What was causing the sudden death?
Despite the 'no serviceable parts warning' on the side of the PSU I had this apart and cleared out the wads of dust, repeating the same with the main fan and graphics card for good measure.
So far, so good. Touch-wood, no black-outs.
Who knows, I might even be able to write the post I came back to write in the first place!
My ten year old PC, replete with Xeon processor, Rambus Ram that I can't expand and a SCSI drive - both ludicrously expensive and only marginally more prevalent than the bowel movements of the proverbial nursery gelding, continues (fingers-crossed) to survive.
Sure as hell can't afford to replace it, that's for sure.
Welcome to the disappointment.
